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A Buddhist Bible with The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold
Category: Meditation | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A Buddhist Bible has inspired and delighted readers since its publication in 1934. It contains key texts from the Zen (or Chan) Buddhist tradition. The Lankavatara Sutra shaped the teachings of the Zen (originally Lanka) school; a copy of the Sutra was passed from the patriarch of this school to his suc ...Show more
A Doll's House + Hedda Gabler + An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Film & Tv | Series: World Classics Ser.
A Doll's House (1879) was Ibsen's first international success, which ''exploded like a bomb into contemporary life. Hedda Gabler (1890) is now one of his most popular plays, but greeted at first with bewilderment and outrage (''The play is simply a bad escape of moral sewage-gas'' Pictorial World). Also ...Show more
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures - amorous and reckless - do nothing to alleviate his boredom and cynicism. World-weary and self-destructive, Pechorin is alienated ...Show more
A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction and revised translation by Adrianne Tooke. Sentimental Education has been described both as the first modern novel and as a novel to end all novels. Weaving a poignant love story into his account of the 1848 revolution, Flaubert shows a society in the grip of stereotypes, on every l ...Show more
A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings by Laurence Sterne
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Set ...Show more
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth centur ...Show more
Anouilh Plays: Bk. 1: Antigone, Leocardia, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The Lark, Poor Bitos by Jean Anouilh
Category: Performing Arts | Series: World Classics
A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, was at the forefront of the post-war generation of playwrights in Paris. In England his plays were championed by Peter Brook. Antigone is a re ...Show more
Arthur Miller Plays 1 : All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: World Classics
Reissued with a new jacket to mark the publication of the sixth and final collection of Miller's plays, this volume contains four of the most important and famous plays of the American theatre. All five plays were written by Arthur Miller within a ten-year period which began with his first Broadway hit ...Show more
Arthur Miller Plays 2 : The Misfits; After the Fall; Incident at Vichy; The Price; Creation of the World; Playing for Time by Arthur Miller
Category: General Fiction | Series: World Classics
This second volume of Arthur Miller's plays contains four stage plays from the sixties and seventies, taking up the theme of individual responsibility from his earlier work. The volume is introduced by the author. The Price (1968) is 'a beautifully intelligent play about two brothers who are pinned in p ...Show more
Arthur Miller Plays 3: The American Clock; The Archbishop's Ceiling; Two-Way Mirro by Arthur Miller
Category: General Fiction | Series: World Classics
The third volume of Miller's plays reissued with a new jacket in the Methuen Drama World Classics series to coincide with the publication of the sixth and final volume of his plays. Plays: 3 contains three of Miller's great stage plays from the late seventies and early eighties. The American Clock is a ...Show more
Arthur Miller Plays 6 : Broken Glass; Mr Peter's Connections; Ressurection Blues; Finishing the Pictures by Arthur Miller
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: World Classics
Miller Plays: 6 is the final volume in Methuen Drama's acclaimed series of work by Arthur Miller who, during his lifetime, was acknowledged as 'the greatest American dramatist of our age' (Evening Standard). Featuring two plays from the 1990s and his final two plays (2002 and 2004), it is the first ever ...Show more
Arthur Miller Plays Plays 5 : The Last yankee; The Ride Down Mount Morgan; Almost Everybody Wins by Arthur Miller
Category: General Fiction | Series: World Classics
The fifth volume of Miller's plays reissued with a new jacket in the Methuen Drama World Classics series to coincide with the publication of the sixth and final volume of his plays. This fifth volume of Arthur Miller's work contains two plays from the early nineties: his highly acclaimed The Last Yanke ...Show more